Tracy McManamon is the founder and CEO of One Source Benefits and International Med Retreats. His services help patients travel affordably through international boarders to receive world class health care or dental care that is either not yet approved in their home country, or is amazingly less expensive outside of their home country.

Being in the health insurance industry for 26 years, Tracy is building a high standard and loving company to ensure patients receive outstanding care and a beautiful location to recuperate.

Join the conversation to hear why medical travel is becoming more and more of an option for patients regarding expense, quality, options, customer service, ease of travel and prompt medical and dental care.

Stem cell therapy is a developing branch of medicine that aims to restore tissue and organ functions for patients with serious diseases and injuries. It is mainly used for people whose bodies’ regenerative functions are not adequate enough to restore functional tissue.

Elias Bemaras is the CEO of ProgenCell in Tijuana, Mexico. He started his career in the stem cell industry in 2001 by building the first umbilical cord blood bank for Mexico. Until 2007, he was the CEO of Cryo-Cell, growing the distribution licensing system for the country and bringing Cryo-Cell to over 50,000 specimens stored and cryo-preserved.

Today, ProgenCell serves hundreds of patients with degenerative conditions utilizing stem cell therapies; mainly using autologous fresh bone marrow adult stem cells. Tune in to learn about the stem cell therapy options available in Mexico. This episode will answer many of your questions and hopefully help you to decide if these procedures are right for you or your loved one.

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Learn how this breakthrough is a big step towards creating stem cells that are perfectly matched to a patient’s DNA. Scientists were able to successfully clone stem cells from two adult males that will not be rejected by the immune system. The article below talks about how this advance in medicine brings us closer to successfully treating diseases like Parkinson’s disease, heart disease, type I diabetes, and multiple sclerosis.

On today’s show, we are excited to be speaking with Carine Hilaire. Carine is the CEO of France Surgery, a medical tourism company that helps people get into the French healthcare system.

Carine’s organization is a necessary link between patients in search of a medical or surgical solution and highly-experienced French specialists. While providing the highest level of professionalism and exceptional support, France Surgery also works with select insurance providers in the United States and Great Britain.

Listen to this episode to find out what you can expect from France Surgery’s services and the incredible French healthcare in general.

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Today’s breakthrough is an inspiring story about how, thanks to technology, a paralyzed woman can walk again. Check out this video and a post about the first-ever 3D printed hybrid robotic exoskeleton that now helps this paraplegic woman walk.

Sandra Fantauzzi is the Founder and CEO of Panacea Health Services International. Sandra is a physician assistant and an entrepreneur, with more than 25 years of combined experience in the hospitality, travel and medical industries.

Tune in to find out about the options and savings available for Americans, as well as people from other countries, for medical tourism across the globe. This episode will answer all your questions and help you feel prepared to start looking for best solutions to your medical problems.

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Today’s medical breakthrough is brought to you by the Boston Children’s Hospital’s Science and Clinical Innovation Blog. Their article talks about different innovations of the last week. One of the points discussed in the article is using the sharing capabilities of Google Docs and Facebook combined with global imaging software for collaboration of radiologists around the world. This development has huge implications for what’s happening with global medical tourism and the ability for doctors to solve problems collaboratively.

Kelly Meloche is the creator of International Health Care Providers, a service for choice Canadians who need a better option for their healthcare needs. Using her relationships with American providers, her mission is to help her clients get necessary treatments in a timely manner rather than being at the mercy of “the waiting list.”

The patient-centric approach of Kelly’s organization is built on ethics, compassion and commitment to ensure a better quality of life for each of her clients.

Tune in to this episode to find out how Canadian citizens can use the services of International Health Care Providers to obtain needed treatment from the best American doctors when necessary.

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Learn about the new research that uses MRI to identify the existence of brown fat deposits in living adults. Also known as the “good fat”, brown fat generates body heat by using energy to burn calories. Locating and quantifying brown fat deposits in adult humans will have a great impact on future development of treatments for diabetes and obesity.

Jeff Poole is a former medical tourist with over 30 years of marketing and sales experience in the high-tech world. For 15 of those years he’s been a consultant, an author, a speaker and life long proponent to natural organic foods and health care practices.

With his ancient Eastern holistic herbal medicine approaches, Jeff takes us through his health journey of pain, suffering and research to improve his lifestyle.

Tune in to hear Jeff’s stories and how he took amazing measures to get his body and mind in tip-top shape and to the big healthy win.

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There is a great article about a professor at MIT who has created a bionic ankle so natural that it’s worth a happy dance. Not only did he create this bionic ankle, he uses it himself because he is a double amputee with the desire to dance the Rumba.

Today we are very fortunate to have two amazing guests on this episode, Dr. Thomas Clark and his wife Karol Clark. Dr. Clark who is a four time best selling author and one of the most experienced and sought-after Bariatric Surgeons in the United States. He’s performed nearly four thousand weight loss procedures and one of the few board certified Surgeons in Bariatric medicine.

His wife, Karol is a formally trained Registered Nurse in women’s health, medical and surgical weight loss and nutrition. She is also a marketing expert with over 20 years of experience as a hospital administrator, surgical practice administrator and consultant.

They certainly radiate passion for helping people add life to their years with effective weight loss and wellness programs that help to ensure long term success.

Tune in to hear the personal stories and all about how these two advise others to approach medical tourism.

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Learn how this breakthrough is a big advancement in regenerative medicine. Scientist have been able to build an esophagus (that’s your wind pipe) from stem cells in a major breakthrough. The article below discusses how successful this procedure was with rats which means they’ll be able to make different parts of our bodies and different organs from your own stem cells. Huge deal!

Welcome to the inaugural episode of Healthcare Elsewhere! We’re very excited to be publishing the show live for all the listeners out there, so without further ado here’s the first episode…

In today’s episode you’ll hear from Holly Huber who was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis nearly 10 years ago that got so bad that she couldn’t walk, drive a car, or live independently without relying on others for assistance.

After trying every treatment available in the US from multiple injections per day to ‘black box’ medications (high risk medications who’s potential side effects can be lethal) she began to look into the alternative options, and through an immense amount or research she ended up in Costa Rica for a treatment that’s not yet approved by the FDA.

Tune in to this episode to hear all about Holly’s journey to Costa Rica, the various lab and treatment options she considered and how she found success with a state-of-the-art treatment that isn’t yet fully approved involving stem cells from both herself and adult cells obtained from umbilical cords.

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In today’s Onwards Medical Breakthrough, there was a test at the University of Edinburgh which successfully took the old, aged thymus (that is a gland that helps the immune system operate properly) of a mouse and through treatment they were able to restore it to a youthful state using regenerative medicine techniques.

This finding will surely have a big impact on regenerative medicine, and could certainly influence the way we administer treatments for corrective, regenerative patients in the future. Learn more about the team’s findings in the article posted here.